Learning LSP by Collaborating: How to Link Student Writers and Journalists, Usability Testers, and Translators Internationally, Interlingually, and Interculturally through Learning-By-Doing Projects

Elisabet Arnó Macià , Fernando Ferreira Alves , Bruce Maylath , Patricia Minacori (1) , Birthe Mousten , Maria Teresa Musacchio , Giuseppe Palumbo , Marina Tzoannopoulou , Susana Valdez , Sonia Vandepitte

1 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus

With a view to training LSP trainers in the value of arranging student collaborations and the ease with which it can be done, this workshop is designed to offer two 90-minute sessions at which participants can learn how to set up and run their own international, interlinguistic, and/or intercultural collaborations by forming students from their courses into cross-cultural virtual teams (CCVTs). Each session will begin with an overview of the variations in the particular type of collaboration

Keywords: translation; technical communication; journalism; usability testing; collaboration; learning-by-doing project

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics

Elisabet Arnó Macià, Fernando Ferreira Alves, Bruce Maylath, Patricia Minacori, Birthe Mousten, et al.. Learning LSP by Collaborating: How to Link Student Writers and Journalists, Usability Testers, and Translators Internationally, Interlingually, and Interculturally through Learning-By-Doing Projects. 20th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes, Multilingualism in Specialized Communication: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Jul 2015, Vienne, Austria. ⟨hal-01230096⟩